[ewg] [PATCH ofed-1.2]: add open-iscsi doc to OFED
Erez Zilber
erezz at voltaire.com
Sun Mar 4 02:31:06 PST 2007
Vlad,
The following patch adds open-iscsi documentation:
--- README.txt.orig 2007-03-04 12:26:15.000000000 +0200
+++ README.txt 2007-03-04 12:20:50.000000000 +0200
@@ -62,6 +62,12 @@
o ibutils: tcl-8.4, tcl-devel-8.4
o tvflash: pciutils-devel
+*** Important Note for open-iscsi users:
+ Installing iSER as part of OFED installation will also install open-iscsi.
+ Before installing OFED, please uninstall any open-iscsi version that may
+ be installed on your machine. Installing OFED with iSER support while
+ another open-iscsi version is already installed will cause the installation
+ process to fail.
2. OFED Package Contents
========================
@@ -81,6 +87,7 @@
- OSU MPI stack supporting the InfiniBand interface
- Open MPI stack supporting the InfiniBand interface
- MPI benchmark tests (OSU BW/LAT, Intel MPI Benchmark, Presta)
+ o open-iscsi: open-iscsi initiator with iSER support
o Sources of all software modules (under conditions mentioned in the
modules' LICENSE files)
o Documentation
--- docs/OFED_Installation_Guide.txt.orig 2007-03-04 12:28:20.000000000 +0200
+++ docs/OFED_Installation_Guide.txt 2007-03-04 12:22:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
- OSU MPI stack supporting the InfiniBand interface
- Open MPI stack supporting the InfiniBand interface
- MPI benchmark tests (OSU BW/LAT, Intel MPI Benchmark, Presta)
+ o open-iscsi: open-iscsi initiator with iSER support
o Sources of all software modules (under conditions mentioned in the
modules' LICENSE files)
o Documentation
@@ -101,6 +102,13 @@
The installer will warn you if you attempt to compile any of the
above packages and do not have the prerequisites installed.
+*** Important Note for open-iscsi users:
+ Installing iSER as part of OFED installation will also install open-iscsi.
+ Before installing OFED, please uninstall any open-iscsi version that may
+ be installed on your machine. Installing OFED with iSER support while
+ another open-iscsi version is already installed will cause the installation
+ process to fail.
+
==============================================================================
4. How to download and extract the OFED Distribution
==============================================================================
@@ -159,8 +167,10 @@
------------------------
o The OFED package is installed under <prefix> directory.
-o Kernel modules are copied to:
+o InfiniBand kernel modules are copied to:
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/infiniband/
+o open-iscsi kernel modules are copied to:
+ /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/scsi/
o The package kernel include files are placed under <prefix>/src/openib.
These includes should be used when building kernel modules which use
the Infiniband stack. (Note that these includes, if needed, have
@@ -188,6 +198,17 @@
installed at:
- RedHat: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
- SuSE: /etc/sysconfig/network/
+o If iSER was included, open-iscsi userspace files will be also installed:
+ - Configuration files will be installed at /etc/iscsi
+ - Startup script will be installed at:
+ - RedHat: /etc/init.d/iscsi
+ - SuSE: /etc/init.d/open-iscsi
+ - Other tools (iscsiadm, iscsid, iscsi_discovery, iscsi-iname, iscsistart)
+ will be installed at /sbin.
+ - Documentation will be installed at:
+ - RedHat: /usr/share/doc/iscsi-initiator-utils-<version number>
+ - SuSE: /usr/share/doc/packages/open-iscsi
+ - man pages will be installed at /usr/share/man/man8.
==============================================================================
@@ -353,3 +374,11 @@
For more information, please visit the OpenFabrics web site:
http://www.openfabrics.org/
+
+open-iscsi documentation is located at:
+- RedHat: /usr/share/doc/iscsi-initiator-utils-<version number>
+- SuSE: /usr/share/doc/packages/open-iscsi
+
+For more information, please visit the open-iscsi web site:
+
+ http://www.open-iscsi.org/
--
____________________________________________________________
Erez Zilber | 972-9-971-7689
Software Engineer, Storage Team
Voltaire – _The Grid Backbone_
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